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  • Fluent in English
  • 39, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • freelance journalist and academic candidate
  • MA in Institutions and Social Mechanisms , BA in Comparat...
  • From Istanbul
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

MA student

PHILOSOPHY

"Peace is the only war worth waging" Albert Camus

Interests

travelling, reading books, writting some stories and commentaries, sometimes diary (I dont like it keeping every single day but at least once a week to remember about the past), drinking at the weekends etc.
I am pretty happy when I take my book or meet with a friend by river or sea, in a cafe and drink a cup of Americano or Turkish coffee and smoke my cigar in joy.

  • books
  • coffee
  • drinking
  • reading
  • traveling

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC: REM comes first, Travis is the second, Guns'n Roses, Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Bryan Adams, Basia Bulat, Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens), Norah Jones, Rufus Wainwright, Mark Knopfler, Simply Red, Buena Vista Social Club, Gogol Bordello, Sophie Ellis Bextor. Kings of Convenience, Placebo, Muse, Keane, Coldplay, The Verve, Duma, Pink Floyd, Guns N' Roses, Jeff Buckley, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Yann Tiersen, Portecho, Radiohead, Alanis Morisette, Queen, Depeche Mode, Nirvana, Jamiroquai, Lenny Kravitz, Maroon 5, The Cure and many more, wide selection of music, but these days mostly not to loudy, more relaxing voices like Basia Bulat!

And my Turkish loves, how can I skip the roots of my music taste. For the ones who really wonder about them, just start downloading some song of them from emule or Limewire;

Baris Manco (legendary singer and my favourite), ZekI Muren, Cem Karaca, Fikret Kizilok, Bulent Ortacgil, Ilhan Irem, MFO, Levent Yuksel, Zuhal Olcay, Candan Ercetin and Huseyin Turan and many more! I just love Turkish music, so deep, meaningful and touching.

BOOKS: Martin Eden by Jack London, The Idiot by Dostoyevsky, Notes From Underground Dostoyevsky, An American Tragedy by Thedore Dresier, Don Quixote by Cervantes, My University Days by Maksim Gorky, If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino, The Days of Consuls by Ivo Andric, Socialism Coming Stand Aside by Aziz Nesin, Red abd Black by Stendhal, The Erasers by Allain Robbe Grillet, Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, Iliad and Odyssia by Homer, Aeneid by Virgil, A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Othello by Shakespeare, My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, Dubliners by James Joyce, Poems of Pessoa by Fernando Pessoa, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Death of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy, Goethe's Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, Orientalism by Edward W. Said, The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Thomas L. Friedman, Poems of Nazim Hikmet, Eugenie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac, The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, Socialism Is Coming: Stand Aside by Aziz Nesin

Countries I’ve Visited

Germany, Greece, Poland, Serbia

Countries I’ve Lived In

Finland, New Zealand, Turkey

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